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...more and more schools set up peanut-free zones and as food manufacturers add warning labels that their products might contain particles of peanuts, soy or other allergens, the abundance of caution is starting to trigger a backlash. Given all the attention paid in recent years to food allergies, the number of people in the U.S. who die from them - 15 to 20 a year - is relatively small. More people die each year from bee stings. "But we don't remove flowers from schools or playgrounds," Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, commented recently...
...European nations have posted increases similar to the one in the U.S., and in a study of the relatively confined residents of Britain's Isle of Wight, rates of peanut allergies among toddlers doubled from 1989 to 1994. While prevalence in Asian countries, where peanuts are a popular dietary add-in, remains low, experts warn that could simply be the result of spottier awareness, diagnosis and reporting of allergic reactions in those nations. (Read "Allergies Nothing to Sneeze...
...first place. The past two Presidents made growing homeownership rates a core goal, but to achieve that, they allowed overly loose lending standards. That caused a spike in demand for houses, which in turn raised home prices so steeply that the modest-income people whom Washington hoped to add to the homeowner rolls couldn't afford them - or eventually couldn't afford the monthly payments they had taken on. Meanwhile, affordable home construction became passé. What developer wanted to build humdrum houses for teachers and police officers when he could make a killing with waterfront condominiums that promised the glamorous...
...power play, when senior Kati Vaughn fed tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt a pass in the Harvard end. Vaillancourt drove up the ice, slipped between two Clarkson defenders, and deposited the puck in the low left corner.In the last two minutes of the first period, sophomore Liza Ryabkina would add a goal of her own. Katharine Chute found her classmate charging in from the right side, and Ryabkina chipped the puck into the right corner of the net, putting the Crimson up, 3-1.On the defensive side, Kessler made nine saves in the first period. The junior left the game after...
...Each year, we review the placements and talk to the students,” said IOP Director Bill P. Purcell. “We tend to add new placements based on student interest and availability...